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Monday, November 9, 2015

Book Tour: Pirate Princess by Catherine Banks

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PIRATE PRINCESS

Pirate Princess #1

Catherine Banks

Released Nov 2nd, 2015

As the daughter of the Pirate King,
Tilia Swanson has an unusual upbringing learning skills that aren’t often
available for women. As the heir apparent for the Kingdom of Crilan, her skills
set her apart as she is trained by the best in the land and taught to harness
her magic. However, piracy is in her blood, and draws danger to Tilia in the
way that treasure draws pirates. Some treasures are more valuable than others.
Will this lesson be learned in time or will the betrayal of those around her be
her undoing?

Catherine
Banks is the author of the Artemis Lupine Series, Little Death Bringer Series,
Ciara Steele Novella Series, and the novel Daughter of Lions. She began writing
fiction stories when she was only four years old and finished her first full
length novel at the age of fifteen.

Catherine
is a Northern California native and has lived within a twenty mile radius her
entire life. She plans to travel to as many places as possible in her thirties
to make up for her lack of traveling experience. She is married to her soulmate
and best friend, Avery, who blessed her with two amazing children. After her
full time job she reads books, plays video games, and watches a lot of anime
shows and movies with her family to relax.

Esmeralda and Jared
clucked their tongues and their horses shot off ahead, racing together.
“Cheaters!” I yelled, clucking to Duke and squeezing my legs to urge him
forward. He reluctantly took off at a canter and then lengthened his stride
into a gallop. We caught up and then pulled ahead of them both by a neck.

“Your horse’s size
is not fair,” Esmeralda called.

“Your small horse
should be faster than this lazy giant,” I called back.

We continued
galloping for a little ways farther and then slowed the horses to a walk. I pet
his neck and praised him. “What a good boy,” I crooned, “I’ll make sure you get
spoiled in Markleville.”

“That horse can
really move when he needs to,” Jared said.

“He’s a perfect
horse,” I said with a genuine smile and heartfelt appreciation.

“I’m surprised you
can even mount him,” Esmeralda teased.

“You should have
seen her trying to climb up him the first day I gave him to her,” Jared said
with a laugh.

“Well you wouldn’t
pick me up and put me on him,” I complained.

“It was worth it to
watch you scramble up his front leg and almost pull out the poor guy’s mane to
get onto his back.”

“I apologized and
gave him three apples that night,” I said as I pet his neck again. “He forgave
me.”

“Most men forgive
you if you give them something to eat,” Esmeralda teased.

“Don’t put
ridiculous thoughts like that into her head,” Jared reprimanded her.

“It’s going to be
interesting to see who you end up with,” Faxon said with a smirk at me.

“What’s that
supposed to mean?” I asked defensively.

“You are equal
parts your uncle and aunt,” he said, “I always knew they were meant to be
together because of how they interacted, but seeing you as both parts makes me
wonder who could possibly counteract your attitude and personality.”

“Are you trying to
imply that by being a little bit of both of us that she is unlovable?” Esmeralda
asked with venom in her voice.

“Not unlovable,
just…difficult,” he said with a wide smile.

“I’ll show you
difficult,” she said, her hands moved and then a fire started on the top of
Faxon’s saddle pad. His horse bolted ahead of us, bucking as he tried to
dislodge the fire and Faxon.

Faxon somehow held
his seat and used his magic to put the fire out. “See what I mean?” Faxon
called back to us, “Difficult.”